The Mac maker has added a new section to its developer site that details a feature called Business Chat that will make its way into iMessage. With the new service, users will be able to send and receive money inside Apple's iMessage app, authenticate payments with Apple's Touch ID fingerprint sensor, and store the money they receive on an Apple Pay Cash Card until they withdraw it or tra... [Full Article...]

Apple assures us it's a top notch speaker , but you'll have to decide for yourself when it's available in stores for testing, or more likely when an audiophile gets a hold of one and writes 5,000 words about its "real-time acoustic modeling". [Full Article...]

Things like making smart assistants smarter and digital speakers more accurate require a lot of hard engineering work that few people can really appreciate. However, don't expect it to provide visual answers - it's just a speaker. While Apple's ( AAPL ) iMac updates and the new HomePod speaker drew most of the attention at the company's World Wide Developers conference Monday, investors may ... [Full Article...]

It is, of course, an AiO and it is based around a chassis holding a 27-inch Retina 5K display. It upgraded the Macs with the latest Intel (INTC) Kaby Lake processors, faster graphics chips, speedier solid-state drives and other improvements. [Full Article...]

The new MacBook will also get a faster SSD. If you don't, Apple also refreshed the prices and specs of the regular 21.5-inch and 27-inch iMac models. Thanks to an all-new thermal design, as well as an all-flash architecture, the iMac Pro can deliver up to 80% more cooling capacity in the familiar iMac form factor. [Full Article...]

Senate Republicans and some Democrats praised the nomination. Here's everything you need to know about Wray, who was picked from the range of former prosecutors, politicians and law enforcement officials Trump interviewed. "He has absolute integrity and honesty, and I think that the president certainly would not be making a mistake if he asked Chris Wray to be Federal Bureau of Investigation... [Full Article...]

To what extent Apple has been able to help with the investigation unknown. "We have been cooperating with the United Kingdom government not only in law enforcement kind of matter but on some of the attacks". Last year, Apple clashed with the Federal Bureau of Investigation regarding the issue of encryption, particularly regarding the iPhone of one of the shooters in the San Bernardino trag... [Full Article...]

It will not work on the iPhone 5 (released in 2012) or the iPhone 5C (2013), as well as fourth-generation iPads (2012). Apple's WWDC 2017 kicked off yesterday where it introduced new hardware including new upgraded iMacs, MacBooks, a powerful iMac Pro , and the rumored Siri smart speaker now known as the HomePod. [Full Article...]